NEMBA: New England Mountain Bike Association

NEMBA Atlas

This is a scan of the map portion of the MDC's pamphlet Mountain Bicycling in the Blue Hills. Bill Boles of the Blue Hills Trail Watch has highlighted the easiest trails in yellow. The pamphlet is available at the Reservation Headquarters. Trails open to mountain bikes are printed in black. Trails closed to mountain bikes are printed in red. Please take this into consideration if you print this map on a black-and-white printer.

Borderland State Park

This is a scan of the map portion of the DEM quide. Please also see the associated key portion.

Erving State Forest - 100% - 17K and Erving State Forest - 200% - 46K

This is a hand-annotated map of Erving State Forest. Two copies are available. The 200% scan provides better resolution.

Franklin

This map was produced from hand-drawn map by Bill Boles. It covers the Franklin section of the F. Gilbert Hills State Forest. The map was manually traced with a paint program to produce a color map indicating trails types by line thickness and color.

F. Gilbert Hills State Forest, Foxboro

This is a scan of the DEM map of the area. I highlighted the MTB loop in yellow. At the park headquarters, a large map is posted with hand-drawn detail of the various trails specified for various usages. The free map available in the box at the headquarters, which is the orginal for this scan, doesn't have the MTB loop as clearly marked. Looking at the hand-out map in conjuntion with the large map, I was able to mark the hand-out map with the MTB loop. Note that with the exception of the portion of the MTB loop that corresponds to Wolf Meadow Rd., the marked MTB loop at Foxboro is quite challenging. Knowing where the loop corresponds to the map may help you ride only a portion of the loop should you wish to complete part of your ride on the dirt roads.

A ride on the MTB loop may be extended by turning right on Messager Rd. at point 11 on the map, taking a left onto the Warner Trail, proceeding North, then West, then South, and returning to the multi-use trail back at Messager Rd. just Southwest of point 11.

Great Brook Farms (200K)

This is a scan of the DEM map of the area.

Middlesex Fells Mountain Bike Loop

The MDC has online a map of the Mountain Bike loop at the Middlesex Fells. This links to the map at their site.

Lynn Woods - 50% - 8.5x11" - B&W - 273K
Lynn Woods Center - 100% - 8.5x14" - COLOR - 303K
Lynn Woods North - 100% - 8.5x11" - COLOR - 214K
Lynn Woods South - 100% - 8.5x11" - COLOR - 213K

The Friends of Lynn Woods publish an excellent map of Lynn Woods. This 11"x17" color map is printed on both sides, one side with the map and the other with interesting information and history on Lynn Woods. We can only scan up to 8.5x14" so We are not able to accurately reproduce this map exactly. We''ve tried to provide a few different scans that may be useful. If you can't get your hands on the full map, one or more of these scans made aid you in finding your way on the trails at Lynn Woods.

The first scan is a 50% reduction in black and white. The only way the entire map could be scanned at once was to first reduce it by 50% via photocopying. This technique resulted in a loss of resolution. The trails are visible on this map however many of the trail names and point-of-interest names are, for the most part, illegible.

The second scan shows the center 8.5x14" section of the map at full size in color. This area contains all the trails although the surrounding area and the legend are not shown.

The last two scans represent the entire map in color and at full size but in two pieces. The first scan shows the Northwest portion. The second scan shows the Southwest portion.

The credits on the map list the following contributors--

Map Illustration By: Mark F. McInerney July 1995
Preliminary Map Layout and Survey: Scott Whitcomb
Field Verification: Mike Hedetniemi

The Friends of Lynn Woods may be contacted at--

Friends of Lynn Woods
P.O Box 8216
Lynn, MA 01904
(781) 593-7773
http://www.flw.org

Pequonnock River Valley or Trumbull Old Mine Park

The Trumbull Historical Society has put this map on the web.

Townsend State Forest and Notes

This scan is a topographic map of Townsend State Forest annotated by John Dorsey.

Wrentham State Forest - 100% - 17K
Wrentham State Forest - 150% - 34K
Wrentham State Forest - 200% - 48K

This map is a black & white drawing prepared by Pete Lewis of the King Philip Trail Riders. There are quite a number of trails indicated on the map. Scans are available in three sizes. Since the map is a B&W drawing, the file sizes are quite small. Download the one you feel like printing. The 150% and 200% maps will not fit on one 8.5x11" sheet of paper. If you print one of these as is, set your printer in landscape mode and print on more than one page. Since most printers have a resolution much finer than computer monitors, a reasonable print of the entire map may be obtained by printing the 200% map on your printer at 60%. In Netscape or Internet Explorer on a PC, follow these instructions:

Click on Wrentham State Forest - 200% - 48K to load the largest map image.
Select File -> Print from your browser's main menu.
Hit the Properties button.
Select the Graphics tab.
Set Scaling to 60%.
Select OK to close the Properties box.
Select OK to close the Print box and complete the print request.
You should get a print as legible as the original on one 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper.